PaPres 1816

Pennsylvania Presidential Election Returns 1816
County	Total Vote	National Republican	Anti Caucus	Plurality	Winner	Pct Nat'l Repub	Pct A C
		James Monroe	Rufus King
Pennsylvania	43241	25653	17588	8065	NR	59.33	40.67
Adams	653	205	448	-243	AC	31.39	68.61
Allegheny	637	218	419	-201	AC	34.22	65.78
Armstrong	157	71	86	-15	AC	45.22	54.78
Beaver	257	180	77	103	NR	70.04	29.96
Bedford	639	423	216	207	NR	66.20	33.80
Berks	2384	1563	821	742	NR	65.56	34.44
Bradford	477	395	82	313	NR	82.81	17.19
Bucks	3739	1789	1950	-161	AC	47.85	52.15
Butler	183	154	29	125	NR	84.15	15.85
Cambria	98	75	23	52	NR	76.53	23.47
Centre	721	479	242	237	NR	66.44	33.56
Chester	3633	1999	1634	365	NR	55.02	44.98
Columbia	608	544	64	480	NR	89.47	10.53
Crawford	181	95	86	9	NR	52.49	47.51
Cumberland	1787	1262	525	737	NR	70.62	29.38
Dauphin	763	510	253	257	NR	66.84	33.16
Delaware	819	348	471	-123	AC	42.49	57.51
Erie	215	85	130	-45	AC	39.53	60.47
Fayette	429	271	158	113	NR	63.17	36.83
Franklin	1061	934	127	807	NR	88.03	11.97
Greene	156	140	16	124	NR	89.74	10.26
Huntingdon	544	474	70	404	NR	87.13	12.87
Indiana	191	76	115	-39	AC	39.79	60.21
Lancaster	2661	1223	1438	-215	AC	45.96	54.04
Lebanon	714	516	198	318	NR	72.27	27.73
Lehigh	843	596	247	349	NR	70.70	29.30
Luzerne	691	378	313	65	NR	54.70	45.30
Lycoming	284	267	17	250	NR	94.01	5.99
Mercer	192	131	61	70	NR	68.23	31.77
Mifflin	636	525	111	414	NR	82.55	17.45
Montgomery	3104	1885	1219	666	NR	60.73	39.27
Northampton	1396	860	536	324	NR	61.60	38.40
Northumberland	663	506	157	349	NR	76.32	23.68
Philadelphia	3669	1698	1971	-273	AC	46.28	53.72
Philadelphia City	3287	1148	2139	-991	AC	34.93	65.07
Pike	159	124	35	89	NR	77.99	22.01
Schuylkill	408	340	68	272	NR	83.33	16.67
Somerset	306	251	55	196	NR	82.03	17.97
Susquehanna	338	242	96	146	NR	71.60	28.40
Tioga	109	86	23	63	NR	78.90	21.10
Union	603	522	81	441	NR	86.57	13.43
Venango	112	100	12	88	NR	89.29	10.71
Washington	621	489	132	357	NR	78.74	21.26
Wayne	94	82	12	70	NR	87.23	12.77
Westmoreland	721	414	307	107	NR	57.42	42.58
York	1298	980	318	662	NR	75.50	24.50

Source: Harrisburg Chronicle, 2 December 1816.
Credit: The Phillip J. Lampi Collection of Early American Voting Data
American Antiquarian Society
Worcester, Massachusetts
Four electors were supported by both factions.
The Republican electors were pledged to James Monroe, the Anti-Caucus Republican and Federalist electors were unpledged.
Smull's Legislative Handbook for 1905, p. 472, shows the candidate as Rufus King and classifies him as a Federalist.
Other candidates mentioned were William Crawford and DeWitt Clinton. Almost all Republican newspapers classified the opposition ticket as either Federalist or the "Carlisle Ticket," referring to the location where the ticket was formed.
Federalist papers usually called it the Independent or Anti-Caucus ticket.

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